A. Alfred Taubman

Adolph Alfred Taubman (31 January 1924-17 April 2015) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist.

Biography
Adolph Alfred Taubman was born in Pontiac, Michigan in 1924 to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, and he attended the University of Michigan and Lawrence Technological University. Taubman became a real estate developer, developing The Mall at Short Hills in Millburn, New Jersey in 1961; it became one of the most profitable shopping centers in the country, and he had amassed a personal net worth of $3.1 billion at the time of his death. In 1982, he opened the Beverly Center in Los Angeles, California, and he bought the ailing British auction house of Sotheby's in 1983. In 2002, he was sentenced to ten months in prison for antitrust violations, as he concluded a price fixing agreement with rival auction house Christie's. Taubman died in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan on 17 April 2015.